San Diego County expects nearly $500 million in fresh revenue over the fiscal year that begins Sunday, and almost every corner of the local bureaucracy stands to benefit.

The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider its most robust yearly budget ever, a something-for-everybody spending plan that allocates more than $6 billion to everything from public safety and mental health to capital projects and the high arts.

All told, the county will spend 8.4 percent more than it did a year ago. The proposed budget identifies almost $6.3 billion in revenue, or $485 million more than the county collected last year.

“We need to be ambitious and continue to challenge ourselves to achieve excellence in all that we do,” Chief Administrative Officer Helen Robbins-Meyer wrote in her budget message. “That is why we continue to plan and allocate resources to meet each and every one of our diverse community’s needs.”

Spread over 619 pages, the budget increases spending in virtually every department across the system. Health and Human Services gets a 10 percent raise, to $2.1 billion. Public Safety will receive a 5 percent hike, to $1.9 billion and Land Use and Environment spending also is pushed up by 5 percent, to $536 million.

Capital projects notched the biggest boost — almost 80 percent more than a year ago. The proposed capital program budget for 2019 is $275 million.

The recommended budget also adds 179 full-time employee positions, nudging the total workforce to 17,583. The cost of salary and benefits rose from $2.12 billion last year to just over $2.23 billion for the new fiscal year.

The extra revenue spelled out in the phonebook-sized budget document is coming from practically every traditional income source: property and other taxes, state and federal grants and pass-throughs, fees and service charges, even fines and penalties.

Property tax revenue alone is expected to climb 7 percent to $749 million; intergovernmental revenue increases 8 percent to $2.6 billion; income from charges for services jumps 4 percent to $992 million; and license and permit fees grow by 1.5 percent to just under $58 million.

County officials said they worked to improve services in areas where they are most needed: mental health and homelessness-prevention.

They added 12 more public-health nurses and $1.6 million in “prevention” money for fighting hepatitis A. Last year, an outbreak killed 20 people and sickened hundreds of others, most of them homeless.

It was not clear what kinds of prevention that cash will be used for.

The biggest single-item increase in the health budget is a $119.6 million allocation to implement a new drug-treatment program for Medi-Cal recipients. The program comes with $92 million in new revenue from federal, state and other sources and allows judges to order tailored treatment programs.

Ron Lane, the county’s deputy chief administrative officer, called the program a “game changer” for the way the region handles drug treatment for inmates leaving county jails.

“We’re sending our inmates to treatment programs willy nilly,” Lane said. “Instead, it’s going to be case managed, overseen by a doctor and a clinician who has a case plan to get them through the system, and we’re expecting that’s going to result in a much higher level of success and treatment in breaking the cycle of people coming back and forth to the criminal justice system.”

The second-largest increase will be a $22-million boost for in-home support services, which provides nursing help to some 28,000 people so they can remain at home instead of moving into assisted living centers, he said.

“Had we not had in-home support services, a fair number of these people would be homeless or near homeless,” Macchione said.

The county also is adding some $8 million to a program that houses seriously mentally ill people. The now-$30 million effort called “Project One For All” found homes for 720 people so far, Macchione said, and the county hopes to house 500 more in coming years.

The budget also includes $1.3 million for hotel and motel vouchers and increases funding for programs that encourage landlords to rent to homeless people.

The billions of dollars in proposed spending does not mean the money will actually be spent.

San Diego County has one of the largest reserves among local governments in the country, with at least $700 million in unassigned spending. Several candidates vying for two open seats on the Board of Supervisors that will be decided in November based their campaigns, in part, on spending down the cash reserves.

David Garcias, president of the Service Employees International Union Local No. 221, which represents about 11,000 county workers, said county officials have done some things right in determining how to spend the growing revenue.

He singled out the new nursing positions, extra money to promote affordable housing and the county commitment to a drug Medi-Cal program.

“There’s been some positives,” Garcias said.

But the union chief, who also represents a coalition of service providers and other advocates for working-poor families called Invest in San Diego Families, said he is disappointed the county will not fund a program for refugees and immigrants.

“All the other large California counties do have an office of refugee and immigrant services,” Garcias said. “L.A. county funded over $1 million so people can call when there are immigration activities going on and we can help support these families so they don’t get torn apart.

“Why couldn’t our county help support that network?”

Union officials also plan to lobby for raises for security officers contracted by San Diego County.

U.S. Security Associates employees, some of whom are paid as little as $11.50 an hour, are scheduled to protest the low wages paid by the county contractor during the budget proceeding and at a rally at the County Administration Center.

The county budget once again includes millions of dollars for charities and community service providers.

The Neighborhood Reinvestment Program provides each supervisor $2 million to award to nonprofit groups or government agencies for specific projects. The Community Enhancement grant program also provides each elected official $1.25 million for business, arts and other programs.

Alzheimer’s San Diego was the only community nonprofit to be recommended for funding by all five supervisors. President and CEO Eugenia Welch said she welcomed the support, which totals $72,500.

“With the growing numbers of families impacted by Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in San Diego County, it's more important than ever that families receive the support they need and deserve,” she said. “Our county supervisors recognize this, and we are honored and grateful they are champions in supporting our community.”

The San Diego Opera Association will collect $18,500; the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory is earmarked for $23,000; and the Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society will receive $20,000, budget records show.

Some of the larger awards will go to business groups, including $120,000 to the Julian Chamber of Commerce, $110,000 to the Fallbrook chamber, $100,000 to the Borrego Springs chamber; and $75,000 to the business group in Alpine.

The budget discussion Tuesday will culminate a weeks-long public process that included multiple public hearings and an opportunity for residents to comment online or even submit video presentations.

No one took advantage of the opportunity to comment by video on the county’s general spending priorities, but 32 groups and individuals uploaded videos to support their applications for grant funds — promotional films that are now available on the county website.

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